Feb 13 Daily
QUOTE
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
BIRTHDAYS
1885 – Bess Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States
1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, Singer and actor
1923 – Chuck Yeager, General and pilot
IN MEMORY
2002 – Waylon Jennings, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1880 – Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
1945 –Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.